If GPT-4.5 was supposed to be GPT-5, why would Sam Altman underdeliver on compute for it? Surely GPT-5 would have been a top priority?
Maybe Sam Altman just hoped to get way more compute in total, and then this failed, and OpenAI simply didn’t have enough compute to meet GPT-5′s demands no matter how high of a priority they made it? If so, I would have thought that’s a pretty different story from the situation with superalignment (where my impression was that the complaint was “OpenAI prioritized this too little” rather than “OpenAI overestimated the total compute it would have available, and this was one of many projects that suffered”).
If GPT-4.5 was supposed to be GPT-5, why would Sam Altman underdeliver on compute for it? Surely GPT-5 would have been a top priority?
Maybe Sam Altman just hoped to get way more compute in total, and then this failed, and OpenAI simply didn’t have enough compute to meet GPT-5′s demands no matter how high of a priority they made it? If so, I would have thought that’s a pretty different story from the situation with superalignment (where my impression was that the complaint was “OpenAI prioritized this too little” rather than “OpenAI overestimated the total compute it would have available, and this was one of many projects that suffered”).
If it’s not obvious at this point why, I would prefer to not go into it here in a shallow superficial way, and refer you to the OA coup discussions.